A Combined Spectroelectrochemical and Computational Study of the Chemically Reversible 2-Electron Reduction of [Ru4(μ-RC2R)2(CO)11] Clusters

Autor: Koentjoro, O. F., Low, P. J., Rousseau, R., Nervi, C., Yufit, D. S., Howard, J. A. K., Udachin, K. A.
Zdroj: Organometallics; March 2005, Vol. 24 Issue: 6 p1284-1292, 9p
Abstrakt: The 62-CVE clusters Ru4(μ-RC2R)2(CO)11, which feature a dodecahedral cluster core, are readily reduced to a 64-CVE dianion in a process that is essentially chemically reversible. A combination of electrochemical, spectroelectrochemical, and computational analyses of the system indicates that the first formed dianion, which features a square planar arrangement of the metal centers with the alkyne ligands located on opposite faces of the M4 square and oriented in a manner such that the C−C bonds are perpendicular to each other, undergoes a thermal rearrangement giving a product in which the alkyne vectors lie parallel to each other across the metal framework.
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